Wal-mart Wisdom

Most people are probably talking about the fantastically amazing OkGO concert that happened on Friday night. Am I right? I think I am. Instead of writing about that, I think I'll entertain everyone with a different story. Mostly because it's something fresh and even more mostly because I had work-study that Friday. Fun times.

I bet everyone's wondering how they will live in Decorah, IA. There's no mall, there's no Starbucks (which I have suffered for tremendously), there's no Target or super expensive designer stores. It's sad coming from a city where we had about three of all of those things. However, there is salvation. Wal-mart.

On Saturday, everyone woke up around the crack of noon and sauntered over to lunch. We decided then and there that it was going to be a Wal-mart day. My third and other people's second. I had a fresh wad of money burning a hole in my drawers and an empty refrigerator, so I was definitely tagging along. I mostly prefer running to Wal-mart at ten o'clock at night, but four in the afternoon was just as good and a little less dangerous.

I won't go too much into detail because, for the most part, Wal-mart can get a little boring and tiring when there's no Halloween section or people going missing for an hour and the projectile flying of certain objects, but it was the light at the end of my tunnel. The week hadn't been so hot, mostly because of my paideia paper and then the depressing bio grades. I relished in the freedom of buying what I wanted and running up and down a store wherever I wanted with my friends in tow. It was great.

Anyway, I guess I'll have some words of the wise for those who plan to go on Wal-mart excursions in the future:

-Leave about two hours to actually go to Wal-mart. There was a time when we went in just to grab some food and we stayed there for an hour and a half. Fun times, though.

-Go with a purpose. I went to Wal-mart three--four [I went today instead of doing homework] times and the second time was completely unnecessary. I ended up spending money I actually needed for something else and on something that I would never use.

-Resist the DVDs. There will be zero time to see them, unless you're my roommate and have the uncanny ability to do math, read Martin Luther, and do chemistry while watching a movie. But honestly, like most people, I have not watched a single one of the DVDs I brought from home. It's not smart spending to spend money on something you're not going to use.

-Smart spend. You really do not need the triple fudge brownie that is extremely on sale, but still very expensive. Really. You don't.

-Take a list. I went to Wal-mart yesterday and today because I had no list. I bought things I didn't need yesterday and didn't get much of what I actually needed so I had to go back today to get necessities, which made me lose precious bio time. I'm not complaining, because every trip to Walmart is a nice walk in the park, but bio is not my strongest subject. I could have definitely used the time.

That's my wisdom.